Poetry: The Romantic Hero
Walton Overture: Portsmouth Point
LPO/LEONARD SLATKIN
7.06 Elgar The Sanguine Fan, Op 81: LPO/BOULT
7.35 Stenhammar Serenade , Op 31 STOCKHOLM PO/
RAFAEL KUBELIK. Records
... for the last time
Presenter Douglas Reith Producer PETER BERG
Last of three programmes MALCOLM PROUD (harpsichord)
IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA/ JOHN LUBBOCK
Boyce Overture No 5 in F Charles Wesley Concerto in G minor, Op 2 No 5 J. C. Bach Symphony in B flat, Op 9 No 3
Charles Wesley Concerto in c. Op 2 No 4
BBC Northern Ireland
Series producer DAVID BYERS
Grieg In Autumn GOTHENBURG SO/JARVI
9.31 Salmenhaara Sonatella ERIK TAWASTSTJERNA HUI-YING Liu (pianos)
9.35 Gounod Va! je t'ai pardonne ... Nuit d'hymenee (Romeo et Juliette) KATHLEEN BATTLE (sop) PLACIDO DOMINGO (tenor) METROPOLITAN OPERA ORCHESTRA/JAMES LEVINE
9.45 Mozart Oboe Quartet (K370): ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
10.03 Ginastera Harp Concerto, Op 25 NANCY ALLEN (harp) PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF MEXICO/ENRIQUE BATIZ
10.28 Bach Partita No 2 (Bwv 826) scott ROSS (harpsichord)
10.55 Dvorak String Quintet in E flat, Op 97 RAPHAEL ENSEMBLE
11.28 Mozart La ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni ) KATHLEEN BATTLE (sop) PLACIDO DOMINGO (tenor) METROPOLITAN OPERA ORCHESTRA/JAMES LEVINE
11.31 Rebel Les Elements ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC/HOGWOOD
11.55 Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben LOTTE LEHMANN (soprano) BRUNO WALTER (piano)
12.14 Brahms Sonata No 3 CYPRIEN KATSARIS (piano) Producer JAMES JOLLY
Benson and Hedges Final ESSEX V NOTTINGHAMSHIRE at Lord's.
Commentary by BRIAN JOHNSTON.
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS and HENRY BLOFELD , with comments from TREVOR BAILEY , CLIVE RICE and England captain DAVID GOWER.
Scorer BILL FRINDALL
1.20pm News
1.25 Cricket Forum with Christopher Martin-Jenkins
1.55 Commentary
Producer PETER BAXTER
John Drummond introduces two days of programmes about the Revolution and the last 200 years in France and talks with writer, poet and translator Jacques Darras.
Revolution and the Musical Theatre The Revolution was a drama with a text by Chenier, music by Gossec and sets by David. Basil Deane on the entertainments turned up by the Revolution.
Four portraits compiled from contemporary sources by GRAEME FIFE. 1: Marie-Antoinette She had great courage, little intelligence and absolutely no tact. With Maureen O'Brien , Helena Breck and Steve Hodson Producer MICHEL PETHERAM
Two of the symphonies Haydn wrote for the Concerts de la Loge Olympique in Paris in the 1780s: No 85 in B flat (La Reine) BERLIN PO/ HERBERT VON KARAJAN No 82 in c (L'Ours) CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA/COLIN DAVIS Records
The first of three talks by Maurice Cranston which trace the influence of the intellectuals of the French Enlightenment on the Revolution of 1789. 1: Montesquieu and the Model of English Liberty.
Music by Berlioz, the harmonious revolutionary. Symphonie fantastique BOSTON SO/CHARLES MUNCH Les Nuits d'ete REGINE CRESPIN (soprano) SUISSEROMANDE ORCHESTRA/ ERNEST ANSERMET. Records
Peter Clayton presente les disques de votre choix.
Richard Mayne (in the chair) talks with Barbara Bray , Michel Ciment and Olivier Todd about the book Dictionnaire Critique de la Revolution Francaise; Bertrand Blier 's film Trap belle pour toi; Voltaire's Folie at the Comedie de Paris; Les Magkiens de la Terre at the Centre Georges Pompidou; and the television literary review Apostrophe. Producer JUDITH BUMPUS Mono
Ravel La Valse LOUIS LORTIE (piano) (R) Germaine Tailleferre Chansons francaises DINAH HARRIS (soprano) GORDON STEWART (piano) Faure Piano Quartet in c minor JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD (piano) AUGUSTIN DUMAY (violin) BRUNO PASQUIER (viola) FREDERIC LODEON (cello) Record
Beethoven's interpretation of a French 'escape' opera of the sort popular during the Revolution. The book, by JEAN NICOLAS BOUILLY , was first set by PIERRE GAVEAUX in 1798. Introduced by John Drummond in conversation with George Steiner.
German libretto by CHORUS OF THE GRAND
THEATRE, GENEVA
SUISSE ROMANDE ORCH/ JEFFREY TATE Act
8.55 From Enlightenment to Revolution by Maurice Cranston.
2: Rousseau and the Dream of Democracy
(Third talk, Sunday 3.35pm)
9.15 Act 2
(Given on 20 May in the Grand Theatre, Geneva)
(Swiss Radio recording)
And thus beset with Foes on every side
The goaded Land waxed mad ...
Ronald Pickup reads from WORDSWORTH'S great autobiographical poem, abridged in 12 parts and introduced by Patric Dickinson.
9: Residence in France and French Revolution
led by MARTIN LOVEDAY conducted by JAMES LOCKHART
Pleyel Symphony in c (1790)
Mehul Symphony No 4 in E (1810)
Compiled by GRAEME FIFE. 2: Comte de Mirabeau He is altogether vile. He has the nature of a beast and I doubt whether any good will come of him.
With Maureen O'Brien , Paul Copley ,
Maurice Denham , Steve Hodson.
(Thirdportrait Sunday 4.25pm)
Richard Mayne , in black tie, introduces music from the lighter side, which the French regard with great seriousness. Records
The French Revolution, chronicled from one of history's tiniest minds. Researcher GED PARSONS Producer
HARRY THOMPSON
